[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] why autotools?

[From: Asko Kauppi]

The Maemo system, examples and all, build heavily on use of  
autotools.  Now, in my opinion the sole use of that toolchain is to  
cover multiple *nixes in a somewhat controllable fashion.

The question is: why does a Maemo-only hello world use autotools,  
since there's clearly no benefit per se from having that "have this  
have that" analysis done?  Why not just use Makefiles, or better  
still, something like SCons (www.scons.org) ?

I would.

-ak